Category: Humanitarian
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Fourteen babies died in the nursery at Islamabad’s largest public hospital. An air-conditioning fault, oxygen pipework, and a ward whose occupants cannot be evacuated quickly — a combination that has killed newborns twice before in two years.
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The toll across Nepal and Tibet is nearing 700 and more than 3,000 people remain unaccounted for. The lake above the valley has drained — but the debris it sat behind is still there, and the rain is still coming.
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A Russian drone hit an ammunition store at Myla, west of Kyiv, and the detonation killed at least 37 people. Zelensky’s anger was aimed at whoever put the explosives next to a care home — the second such incident in two months.
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Survivors cut off in the upper valleys are reaching safety, and residents of Nuwakot spent Saturday digging belongings out of the mud. Close to 3,000 people are still unaccounted for — a number that needs reading carefully.
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Israel’s defence minister said any launch over Gaza is a terrorist act, renewing a threat against anyone releasing a balloon or kite. Parents are now enforcing the ban themselves. The tactic behind the policy is real; so is what it costs.
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The death toll from Wednesday’s glacier collapse passed 500 on Friday, and the debris that caused the flood has now dammed the river, forming a lake that has begun to overflow. Search work near the border has been paused.
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A glacier collapse sent water, mud and debris down the Lhende Khola valley on Wednesday morning, burying villages on both sides of the Nepal–Tibet border. It is the region’s deadliest disaster since the 2015 earthquake.
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A debris flood destroyed villages, bridges and hydropower projects along the Bhote Koshi on Wednesday. Reported death tolls have run from 17 to more than 160 in 36 hours, and the missing figure from 403 to over 1,300. Here is what each source says, and when.
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At least 47 people were killed in an overnight raid on a farming community overlooking Port-au-Prince, according to the UN; a Haitian rights group counts 30 to 40. Residents say police fought and still could not protect them. An election is due in December.
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Hospital officials say four people including two children were killed in central Gaza on Monday. The Israeli military says it struck weapons stored inside mosques after issuing warnings. What the law actually requires when a protected site is used militarily.